Posted on Sat 23 April 2011 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, Nginx
Nginx is a real fast and easy to configure webserver. It can work in proxy mode like squid and handles much traffic nicely.
If you want to install this great webserver on FreeBSD just use the ports collection and run the following commands:
cd /usr/ports/www/nginx
make install …
Posted on Fri 22 April 2011 in Tools • Tagged with diagram tool, Gliffy
Gliffy is a web based diagram software. If you are on a different platform than MS Windows you are maybe searching for a good diagram software like MS Visio.
The tool works with flash in your browser and allows you to use it on every platform with flash support. You …
Posted on Fri 22 April 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Apache, MySQL, PHP
If you wanna test web applications and don't have the time and experience in setting up a complete LAMP environment on Mac you should have a look at MAMP. It's a complete Apache, MySQL, PHP distribution with a small management gui.
Just install the package and start the MAMP application …
Posted on Fri 22 April 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Mindmap, MindNode
MindNode is another tool I want to share with you. If you need a tool to quick and easy write your ideas or brainstorming down I can recommend MindNode to you. There is a free and a pro version. Up to now i am comfortable with the free version.
Check …
Posted on Fri 22 April 2011 in Mac • Tagged with dvcs, gui, Mercurial
There are two big distributed versions control systems one is Git and the second is Mercurial. Many popular software projects migrated there repositories to Git or Mercurial the last years. There are some nice plugins for ide's but to browse or checkout a repository independent from an ide i prefer …
Posted on Thu 21 April 2011 in Security • Tagged with Firewall, pfSense
Some time ago I came over pfSense in a project and did some review of it. pfSense is a FreeBSD based firewall with many features and an easy to use web based interface. It works nicely in virtual environments like VMware and it's installation is quite easy.
Within a few …
Most webapplications are using a database to store there information nowadays. Often MySQL is used to do this task if it's an cost sensitive organisation or person. MySQL is easy to install and manage in small environments but if you have many transactions and higher load on your database you …
Posted on Wed 20 April 2011 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD
Linux became the standard operation system for servers in the Internet over the last years. Most web server, gateways or mail server are built on this stable and well developed OS. But there is an
other giant in the backround working. FreeBSD has an long history and is known for …
CentOS 5.6 was released and I updated nearly all of my CentOS machines to the new version. Up to now only one machine made some smaller problems and needs some love to work like it did before the update.
The procedure is quite simple if your are on CentOS …
Posted on Wed 20 April 2011 in Security • Tagged with Firefox, privacy, security, SSH
In the time of free wifi and free internet connections in every hotel, bar or cafe you should be sure your connections are secure. In some cases you can't trust the connection but you need to go online and read some mails or share some documents. In this case some …